The key idea of this unit is that managing your time allows you to do what you must do, so that you have time to do what you want to do.

• Lesson 1: Understanding the Importance of Time
• Lesson 2: Understanding How I Currently Spend My Time?
• Lesson 3: Understanding How to Organize your Time
• Lesson 4: Understanding How to Organize your Time
• Lesson 5: Understanding Helpful Organizational Habits
• Project: Choosing an Organizational Tool/System that Works for YOU!

Lesson 1: Understanding the Importance of Time
This lesson is designed to help students think critically about how they view time and understand their priorities (in other words, what matters to them).

Lesson 2: Understanding How I Currently Spend My Time?
The purpose of this lesson is to ask students to comprehensively examine how they spend a school week so that they can start to identify how they currently spend their time and evaluate whether the way they manage their time helps or hinders efforts towards achieving their priorities.

Lesson 3: Understanding How to Organize your Time
This lesson is designed to help students build a decision-making process/filter by understanding and applying Stephen Covey’s Time Management Grid.

Lesson 4: Understanding How to Organize your Time
This lesson will help students acknowledge stress and understand how to counteract it while also introducing students to Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (Committing to character development has positive ramifications for time management).

Lesson 5: Understanding Helpful Organizational Habits
This lesson focuses on healthy organizational and time management habits.

Project: Choosing an Organizational Tool/System that Works for YOU!
This project is designed to help students decide which organizational tool/method/system works best for them and then give them a chance to practice implementing it, and ultimately to present it briefly to the class, since what someone else discovers and shares may have appeal to other students.